France: Nights of Doubt

For the Moslems of Algeria, as for their
brethren elsewhere in Islam, it was Leilat-echek, or the Night of
Doubt, when the faithful traditionally scan the sky for the appearance
of the moon that marks the beginning of the holy month, Ramadan. It was
also the time Charles de Gaulle had chosen for his latest broadcast
report on the Algerian situation, and he sounded as if, for him, the
night held no doubts whatever: peace with the Moslems of Algeria would
soon be concluded, he insisted, and the terrorist Secret Army
Organization...